HOW   ODD   OF   GOD
Jews, in ten years, at this rate? They will all have been exterminated.
There came a Communist regime, almost exclusively Jewish: a
reactionary regime with a brief but fierce anti-Jewish period; and
then — another period of glorious Jewish prosperity. This is what
makes Hungary so very instructive, in studying the Jewish pro-
blem: it is the only country in Europe, save Germany, where you
have had violent anti-Semitism since the war, and within a few
months that was all forgotten and the Jews were as powerful and
as comfortable as ever, and have remained so to this day, when the
clouds are gathering again in the north-west.
This is the story* In 1919 a Red Republic was proclaimed in the
land of the Magyars. Of the Government, of the twenty-six
People's Commissars, eighteen were Jews! The Jews had un-
trammelled power in Hungary, and they packed the administra-
tion, so that the Jews, in that period, were not a powerful though
camouflaged class, but overtly the ruling class.
They had a straw man, an Auslage Goy, as President, the good
master-bricklayer Alexander Garbai, but he had nothing to say.
Theirs was the Hungarian Kingdom, the power and the glory.
Aaron Cohen (B61a Kun), Josef Pogany, Tibor Szamuelly
(Samuels) and the others reigned unchallenged, and did some
very unpleasant things. Their fingers were no whit less quick on
the trigger than those of Ad Hitler or Al Capone.
Many people are puzzled by the leading part that the Jews
play in Communism. How can the Jews, who love money, be for
a doctrine which denies the right of private property, the right
to amass wealth?, they ask their little selves. The answer is that
there is always money at the top, and at the top is a thing that
attracts Jews more than money — power. Hungary had given
the Jews everything they could desire. One Jew, Ludwig Hatvany,
wrote:
The old Hungary gave me everything: wellbeing, security, rank
and title.  The university and the academy stood open to me.
He was of those who supported the Bolshevist regime and after-
wards fled into exile.
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